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Wyandotte (/ ˈ w aɪ ə n d ɒ t / WY-ən-dot) is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 25,058 at the 2020 census. [2] Wyandotte is located in southeastern Michigan, approximately 11 miles (18 km) south of Detroit on the Detroit River, and it is part of the collection of communities known as Downriver.
Downriver communities near Detroit and Dearborn (such as Allen Park, Lincoln Park, Wyandotte, River Rouge, Melvindale and Ecorse) were developed in the 1920s-1940s and are identified by brick and mortar homes (often bungalows), tree-lined streets and Works Progress Administration-designed municipal buildings, typical also of the homes within Detroit's city limits.
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The original two Coney Islands in Detroit. In 1914, the first Coney Island restaurant was opened by Macedonian immigrant George Todoroff in Jackson, Michigan.Today, two unaffiliated Coney Island restaurants are located near that site, Jackson Coney Island and Virginia Coney Island, and several other restaurants throughout the Jackson area offer their own version of the Coney Island hot dog ...
In 1904, the Michigan Central Railroad built a small brick and stone depot along the tracks near East River Road on the east side of the island. Train service peaked during the early 20th century, but rapidly declined after Edward W. Voigt 's Grosse Ile Bridge Company opened the Grosse Ile Toll Bridge for automobile traffic on November 27, 1913 ...
The Ford–Bacon House is located at 45 Vinewood in Wyandotte, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1987 [2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. [1] It is now used as the Bacon Memorial District Library. [3] [4]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.875 sq mi (17.81 km 2), all land. [ 2 ] Southgate borders the cities of Riverview (south), Wyandotte (east), Allen Park (northwest), Taylor (west), and Lincoln Park (north), as well as Brownstown Charter Township (southwest).
In 1872 he married Emma Lacey, and that same year the couple hired Raphael R. Thomas, a cousin of Emma's, to build this house. The couple moved into the house in late December of the same year. They raised five children in the home (Edith, Elsie, Harry, Frank, and Walter), and John Eberts started a coal business supplying homeowners in the area ...